I heard a good analogy the other day. When the male lion is bloody, limping, and weak after a fight all the jackals, hyenas, other rival lions, and vultures take notice.
I agree, but the point is we are weak because the dems are making us weak. This is by their design.
Wonder if he is doing this so he can declare martial law and he can be president without running for office.
Let's not pretend the GWOT didn't weaken our military, our tactics for conventional warfare, morale, and our people's stomach for any conflict. Pubs and Dems are trash and both responsible for where we are but I agree. Trump was a strong force at president. Biden is awful
The GWOT was also a cause for stripping of some of our constitutional freedoms under the auspice of homeland security! We have been on the slow March to erosion of our freedoms since the early 1960’s if not sooner.
Culture war and political division, definitely. Leadership, hardly. Biden has united Europe, Japan and SE Asia against Russia, and now China, in the war against Ukraine. If anything, it’s the Republicans and their isolationist dogma that is to blame for perception amongst our allies.
Wow! From your perspective, the USA has never been stronger. We need more like Buttigieg, the secretary of health, secretary of energy (well that brave individual got fired) , press secretary, etc. a collection of weak ineffective losers running us into the ground. But from your perspective, we are stronger. Wow! Ukraine is all money laundering, Biden does not care for the people of the US or Ukraine. He loves his money though. If he still even understands what’s going on.
Damn this globalist bull that pos needs to look after the US first. He doesn’t give a damn about the working class people in this country yet he will try to destroy the working class so he can look great to the world. He is doing more for Ukraine than he is for the US.
Right now he needs to focus on uniting people here. Not our Allies. And not people that would turn on us in a second. And not walking headfirst into more conflict. A foreign ally with a strong America is more likely to follow. Or get behind us. Weakness is what makes people jump ship. Right now biden is as weak as it gets. Anericans and america get worse by the day while he is more worried about other places. This is going to get worse before he leaves office because our enemies smell blood.
I think Biden is a proxy leader. He can’t even tie his own shoes, much less project power or decisions to lead our nation. I think he is being controlled like a puppet.
You sound like someone who never spent a day in the military. Zelensky will be glad to issue you a rifle if you show up there. We’re funding a proxy war with Russia with no end game. Heck even China is trying to help negotiate a cease fire. Instead we send billions in military hardware to continue a war with no strategy to win. Thousands needlessly dying on both sides. But glad you mentioned Syria. Barrack and Hillary thought they could force out the dictator there by helping fund a civil war. Only managed to destroy the country and create a humanitarian crisis in Western Europe. Then helped force out the previous President of Ukraine. How’s that working? At some point Democrats and the Bush family need to stop trying to force out leaders they don’t like to establish governments in order to line their own pockets. Both parties have individuals with family members with financial interests in Ukraine. BTW, NATO doesn’t need to be expanded it needs to be dissolved. Biden has shown he doesn’t care that you‘re not a NATO member, he’ll send billions of taxpayer paid aid and military equipment anyway.
Do you believe Ronald Reagan would have handled this any differently?
And yet you think the answer to this problem (Putins of the world running over other countries because of weak US leadership) is to be weak and let Putin just gobble up whatever he wants?
No idea how he would he handle it. If I could summon his ghost and brief him on all the classified and unclassified info, then I'd let you know
No. Biden lifted the sanctions that prevented Putin from selling national gas to the European nations. When he could not sell to them , he could not afford to invade Ukraine or any other nation. Biden aided him and now is making just weak by spending money on the most corrupt nation existing today. Much of The money we are sending is not going to war effort. We are funding pensions for the Ukrainian politicians and laundering money for our crooked politicians as well. The US funded bio weapons labs and the child sex trafficking operations have been exposed as well. The citizens of Ukraine are the victims. We are prolonging and escalating this war. Where are all the images of war to be seen? Why don’t we see these scenes of Warcraft, like we have any other conflict we are so involved in? Wake up and question the left.
A couple logical issues with your argument here. Biden lifted sanctions on NordStream 2 in 2021, which still has never come online or sent any natural gas to Europe and recently declared bankruptcy...
Man, conservatives sure do sound like the same talking heads on Russian State TV...
Not my fight but never cite NPR as a source for fair information
He also killed the restrictions on the Nordstrom pipeline.
I know! It's like your point never made any sense in the first place! Nord Stream 2 was never certified by Germany and never delivered any gas!
I apologize that you're offended by the source of the article about how Tucker Carlson, Qanon and the right continue to parrot talking points from Russian state media.
thedispatch.com
If you wanted one person other than Putin to take most of the blame for this current situation, it is Barack Obama and Joe Biden for letting them take Crimea with only rudimentary sanctions.
He killed the restrictions on the working , functioning gas line( better?) that enabled Russia to raise the money to invade corrupt Ukraine. Trump
How did Russia sell gas and make money from a pipeline that has never delivered any gas?
How did Russia sell gas and make money from a pipeline that has never delivered any gas?
And I wouldn’t exactly say Trump did anything that hurt the Russian economy, but Obama sure did when Putin annexed Crimea in 2014
Are you forgetting when American special forces wiped out 2-300 Russian mercenaries in Syria? The Russians admitted they got their asses Handed to them. In case you were not aware Trump also levied sanctions on Russia and did not allow it to send natural gas through its pipe line to europeHow did Russia sell gas and make money from a pipeline that has never delivered any gas?
And I wouldn’t exactly say Trump did anything that hurt the Russian economy, but Obama sure did when Putin annexed Crimea in 2014
Man, you don’t have the facts on anything do you? How would Trump have had any bearing on whether natural gas went through Nord Stream 2, when it wasn’t finished until 8 months after he left office? And Germany never certified it, so again, no gas has ever been delivered through NS2.
1. I think you are avoiding the Reagan question. Reagan's principles and actions were well known. Do you think Reagan would agree with Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene on Ukraine?
And yet the answer to that is to demand that Biden let Putin take the rest of Ukraine?
Re: Reagan situation: I don't know how he would have gone. My knowledge of Reagan and his term is limited.
He applied sanctions so it would not allow cash flow for the Russian state and Biden helped a communist out with his cancelling of those sanctions. I get your point that it did not take effect due to the line not being functionally complete. The point is Trump was not buddy buddy with putin. He inflicted hardship on them , like an American president should do when warranted.
It doesn't make sense. Reagan would not stand down and let this happen. I don't know what's happened to the Republican party. If you're going to let Russia take over Ukraine you might as well roll out the red carpet and invite China to take over Taiwan. Then, does anyone really believe Putin would stop at Ukraine with our new isolationist policy?
Again, just making up stuff. Trump certainly sanctioned Russians, Russian companies and other entities, but all together they had little effect on the cash flow of the Russian government, if at all. However, Biden has continued all of the previous sanctions, as well as employed much more severe ones, like cutting off Russia from SWIFT, imposing a price cap on Russian oil and freezing all Russian central bank reserves in the West. And all of this while convincing Europe to forego Russian gas and building a mostly global coalition to enforce the sanctions. To suggest he hasn't helped put the screws to Russia is ridiculous.
Biden is only protecting his crime syndicate in Ukraine. You libs will never admit the truth even as your lives are ruined by your masters in DC.
If certain Americans didn’t have significant financial interests in Ukraine we wouldn’t be funding a war there. But this all goes back to when Obama was President and Joe was supposed to be his point man there. Another example of the U.S. behind regime change and then pushing the idea of another NATO member on Russia’s border.
It is also one of the most corrupt nations In existence today. Child sex trafficking, bio weapons labs, money laundering, etc. it’s a proverbial Disney Land for Democrat politicians from the US. I’m sure there are some pubs in the mix as well.
It’s not bad if you don’t care about the thousands needlessly dying on both sides. Has the Biden administration made any real attempts to try to broker some kind of settlement? We can send a trillion dollars to Ukraine but they aren’t going to defeat Russia since Biden wisely opposes Ukraine getting fighter jets. Which might just escalate things totally out of control. So far Biden has sent 105 billion in taxpayer money for military equipment and aid and the cartels are running wild on our own southern border. Misplaced priorities. We’re 31 trillion in debt. But you guys seem ready for direct U.S. involvement and who knows what might happen in that scenario.
Republican Party? Heck this is Biden and Obama’s war. They orchestrated the events which have led up to this point. The Democrats seem eager to fund it even when we’re 31 trillion in debt. Never realized what war mongers these liberals were. But somebody gets rich with all the blood money. Certain U.S. money interests are already trying to figure ways to cash in to rebuild Ukraine once the shooting stops. Republicans aren’t in charge of anything, but it is worth noting Putin didn’t invade Ukraine when Trump was in office.
